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Th Statesmen, Salem, Orgoa, Monday; Ternary IX McCarthy to i liwes p-' wASEnNGTON (flVeii; McCarthy (R.-WIs.) said Sunday one of 5the first requests by Fresident-eiect tisennower 10 congress win pc ?for authority to reorganize government agencies. - At the same time, McCarthy told a reporter that first activities kf the Senate Government Operations Committee, which he will head. Swill be on government reorganization rather than investigations.' j,. r "President Eisenhower is" anx Probe of Red 4 lesm Korea Sought WASHINGTON W Congress will be asked Tuesday to start a full-scale investigation of alleged Communist atrocities against Am erican soldiers in Korea. Rep. Sheehan (R-Ql) said in a statement Sunday he will intro duce a resolution setting up a sev ! en-man special House committee twith authority to subpoena infor imation and travel anywhere for 'evidence. The chances for passage appeared good. i The resolution also would auth orize the committee to probe atro cities against other Allied troops. South Korean civilians and other '"crimes against humanity" alleg edly "committed by forces of to talitarian countries" throughout the world. i Sheehan recalled that Gen. Mat- the B. Ridgway, former United Nation commander in Tokyo, told the U.N. last yea that "appnnd tnately 8,000 United States mili tary personnel have been report ed killed as war crimes victims." The general said he had exact i Information on about 400 cases up to July 20. 1951. Sheehan said the probe would Sttempt to determine- what has m happening in Communist prison camps, from which neutral observers have been barred. He suggested one reason for the deadlock in truce talks was that ''perhaps the Communists would ot be able to account for all Americans they have taken pris oner and are, therefore, reluctant to conclude an armistice which might reveal that atrocities have occurred." ' During the Fanmunjom negoti ations, American officials said 11, 000 A -icans were missir - and presumed to be Red prisoners. The Communists presented a list of prisoners containing only 3,198 names. 5 Rep. Ayres (R-Ohio), announc ing he would offer a parallel res olution, called upon all Korean vet erans to "relay first - hand infor mation regarding Korean atroci ties to me." : -Atrocity reports were frequent during the early days of Korean fiffhtin- -Advancing troors found the bodies of American GI's, shot with their hands tied behind them, and the remains of several hun dred' South Korean civilians, al legedly slain by the North Korean Communists. , .These reports became more in- tered the war. . Albany Woman JnjuredasCar, Train Collide tataasaaa News Sarrleo ALBANY Mrs. Elsie Dick house, Albany Route 3, sustained bruises and a possible pelvic frac ture when the car she was driv ing and a slow moving freight col lided Sunday noon at Third Ave- nut and Lafayette Streets. .v She was taken to Albany Gen eral Hospital where her condition was considered "good" Sunday evening. Witnesses said that Mrs. Dickhouse was proceeding east when the southbound train struck her. car at mid-center. The auto was carried about a block. Mary Casteel, 97i Succumbs Statasmaa Mews Senrlea r: STAYTON Services, for Mary Ann CasteeL who died Saturday in Gresham at the age of 97 years, will be held Tuesday in the Wed- cle Funeral Home at 2 pjn. Interment will be at Lone Oak Cemetery. -T" She was born in Union Hill Dis trict. March 20. 1855. She resided at Pilot Rock after leaving Union uni and later moved to Gresham. Survivors include Ltwo sons. Fred CasteeL Sublimity, and Wal ter CasteeL Pilot Rock; 11 grand children and 13 great-grandchildren. DOE MEETS SON " i - NEW ; YORK PW; Mai; John Eisenhower arrived from Korea on a 15-day furlough Sunday and was greeted warmly at the airport by nis jainer, tne president-elect. : ! There's $25X3 : ; ! In Tta Jcdip:! This dish - takes soma cooking And more than htfitinr thrm; It's mighty good at anytime, Any pot r pan . win dew Yon can start with Just a little. And plan , full menu; -Cat if yea have some men to feed. . t - - , . Better juld a rack or two. 'vuhrs ;coonnr Atrocit a - k .... 1853 Sidetrack ious to streamline and cut down government agencies." the tor said. Existing presidential authority to reshuffle government departments and bureaus subject to a veto by the House or Senate is due to expire March 31. McCarthy's announcement that this would get first priority from him as a Senate committee chair man came as something of a sur prise. Many of his colleagues had ex pected the senatorto make a fast start on investigations because of his past campaigns against Com munists in government Special Committee The Government Operations Committee is the chief investigat ing group of the Senate. Most of this work .in thej past has been un der a special seven-member sub group which McCarthy also will head. "I don't know now just where we will start." McCarthy said. pointing out that graft and corrup tion inquiries are a major duty of the committee. "The staff now has a large number of cases un der, investigation." McCarthy said there had been much erroneous speculation that his investigations might overlap Into fields now covered by the Senate Judiciary Internal Securi ty Subcommittee, or House Inves tigations "I've told both Senators Taft R. that I have no Intention of en croaching," McCarthy said. "We have got too much work. -jority leader and Knowland Is chairman of the Senate Republi can Policy Committee. McCarthy renewed his conten tion that there should be a con gressional investigation of Com munist infiltration in educational insttutons. makes it, we will turn oyer our files and cooperate," h said." A Communist professor is just as dangerous as a Communist in the State Department." McKay to Talk Over Alaska Job With Ike NEW YORK m Gov. Doug las McKay, of Oregon, secretary of interior-designate, said Sunday nignt ne plans to discuss witn President-elect Eisenhower the selec tion of a new governor-for the Territory of Alaska. "I am going to discuss the mat ter with him, but I don't know that I am ready to come up with any recommendations on a man to fill the job," McKay told a re porter. McKay and other members of the incoming Cabinet will meet with Eisenhower Monday for a dis cussion of domestic and foreign problems which will face the new administration when it takes of fice Jan. 20. Ernest Gruening, a Democrat, now Is governor of Alaska. He almost certainly will be replaced by a Republican. Asked' about reports that Frank Heintzelman is a likely choice for the job, McKay laughed and said: "He is one of the several can didates being promoted up there. I haven't made any decision on any of them." McKay said Heintzelman Is a retired regional forester for the southeastern area of Ala ha. Mrs. Hausinger Of Mt, Angel Succumbs at 88 Statssmaa Naws Carrie MT. ANGEL Mrs. Theresa Hausinger, resident of ML Angel since 1906, died early Sunday at the age of 88 years. Recitation of the rosary will be held Monday in St. Mary's Cath olic Church at 8 pjn. Solemn requiem high mass will be con ducted Tuesday at 8:15 ajn. to SL Mary's. The Unger Funeral Home of ML Angel is in charge. Mrs. Hausinger was born Ther esa Schxnldbauer, June 3, 1864, in Leroy, Wis. She married John Hausinger there March 13, 1888. They lived in South . Dakota and Minnesota before movine to Mt. AngeL He died July, 15, 1939, and a son, Juuus Hausinger died Jan. 10, 1938. Survivors Include four daush. ten, Mrs. Clara HesseL Miss Dora Hausinger and Mrs. Mary Miller, all of ML Angel, and Mrs. Theresa Doshas, Portland; -one sister, Mrs. Victoria Peters, Stillwater; Minn.; 22 grandchildren: 50 great- exand- children and 'one great-great I granacnua. , . , , - EDITOR SUCCUMBS . WASHINGTON (Lawrence F. Hurley. 55. editor of Nation's Business Magazine, died Sunday. Frca Tclovirita 1 IT Yeater Appliance and Tele vision Co. tnvttes yea and year family te attend their free tele vision theater every night tH P. M. Monday through Friday. The theater Is located right in the store. M.r-; Mi iTdsvfcka Co; f 375Chemeket Phono 1-4311 ALAMOGORDO, N. The "GAPA" (Ground-to-air Kletleaa Aircraft), leaves a trail ef flames aa it zooms from its Alamogorde, N. XL, Uvnching platform daring testa ef Boeing Airplane Company Wastes eoacladed ta 1949. The -GAPA". ut of snere thaa 19 Boeing snissles tested tn aa Air Feree speaeored defease prograsa, provided research, data for later snJasle program by Boeing. This is eae of a series ef pietares last released with Defense Dept. approval. AP Wlrephoto to The Statesman.) Set of Twins 90 Years Old NEWPORT. Ky. Ul Mrs. Eva Bowman of Newport and Mrs. Mary Cullen of MaysviHe. Ky who believe they are th oldest set of twins in the nation observed their 90th birthday here Sunday. More than 300 persons stopped in at Mrs. Bowman's home to give tho white-haired woman birthday greetings. Earlier they attended church where they said the pastor "preached to us. - The twins are natives of Mays vllle. Mrs. Bowman has one son. four grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Mrs. Cullen has two sons, one grandson and two great grandsons. Three years ago tho convention of the International Association of Twins named them as the oldest in the country and awarded them a trophy. Mrs. Cullen said "hard work and keeping always on the go" have contributed to her long life and Mrs. Bowman added, "and having lots of friends." - Traces of Old Races Found By Scientist BALTIMORE A Johns Hop kins University scientist said Sunday he had uncovered evidence that humans lived in America - a thousand centuries ago 60,- 000 years earlier than even the most generous of previous esti mates. The university said this finding by Dr. George F. Carter "may be the greatest archeologica devel opment in the United States in the last 20 years." Carter, chairman of the Isaiah Bowman School of Geography at Johns Hopkins, based his pro nouncement on the discovery of an cient man-made tools in California. In A technical paper published in the winter issue of Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Carter says he found the implements with in gravel terraces deposited by streams before the fourth and last glacier over 100.000 years ago. Most other archeologltts contend man did not come ta America from Siberia until late in the last ice age from 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. Carter himself took exception to this theory in 1949, when he ex pressed the opinion that these col leagues were at least 20,000 years too conservative. Gulf of Alaska Quake Scene VANCOUVER. B.C. W The Gulf of Alaska was named Sun day night by a Canadian seismolo gist as the birthplace of an earth quake which tickled seismographs from Calixorn to Massachusetts earlier in the day. W. G. Milne, seismologist at the Dominion Astrophysical Observa tory at Saanich) B.C.. disputed a Berkeley, Calif,, estimate which placed the quake in Mexico's Oax- aca State. -, Milne estimated the earthquake. which he describee" as "moderate ly, strong." originated slightly more than 1,000 miles northwest of Victoria. - Saanifh is a residential suburb of Victoria, which is at the south ern end . of Vancouver Island. TICKETS K0T7 Joseph SzlgetL Violinist Cedent IZqh Audllorfuxa Tonixht 8;1? P. M. Tickets At Stevens Jewelers QffontlieWm Did Grave Robbers Kill Wealthy Blonde? By OLIVER G. CLAUSEN COPENHAGEN, Denmark 0) Was the beautiful young blonde one of tho world's richest women slain by grave robbers? Was she killed before her burial? Or did she die a natural -death? Four million Danes are asking those questions and are breathless ly wondering what the answer will bo. -A distant relative is going to exhume her body and see if he can find ouL The story goes back 155 years, when Copenhagen was at its gayest and Giertrud Birgitte was 17, a life loving beauty about. whom poets did flip-flops- and swains waxed passionately lyrical. The daughter of a wealthy business man, the much-courted Giertrud gave her heart to Andreas Bodenboff, 32, tho scion of one of -the wealthiest families in 18th century Europe. Six months after their wedding in 1796 death struck down the hand some Andreas and left the sorrow ing widow with vast riches ship ping companies, trading enterpris es and. so it was said, two barrels filled with gold. Was She Dead? : But Giertrud died a year after her husband and was buried in the family plot at Asssitens cemetery. She was buried but was she dead? Hardly had her body been put away when curious Danes began asking that question. They noted that relatives said the lovely heir ess died of "a boil in the ear." but no doctor Issued a death certifi iate. They speculated she might have been killed in her sick-bed. possibly by an overdose of opium, given ostensibly to relieve her pain. A rejected lover might have done that Ox the murder if murder it was might have been committed by a relative greedy for her riches. Ramors Fly But that was nothing to the ru mors which set the tongues awag ging with a ghastly tale of how Giertrud had been burled alive, only to be slain by grave robbers. She had received an overdose of opium an righL according to this tale, but it only left her In a state of suspended animation. Honestly believing her to bo dead, her fam ily buried her beside her husband. The next night two- robbers forced their way Into the vault bent on stealing precious gems which had been buried with her. . One of the robbers, so the story ran. tore so violently at a gold ring fastened to Giertrud's ear that she awoke in pain, sat up in her 6 P.I L 'ui ! : ; ? r . opehiiig j '., ! ' i i FEATURING 1 CEABCOAL BDOHED . STEAKS Charcoal Broiled Chicken and . Bead Frino Ribs ; Baked Han j and Boasted - And You WHI Enjoy ' j ! Chef iicdrcinan ; -And His Armenian Dishes j SHXSH XEBBAB of Spring Lamb CAUCASIAN SffiSHLEC of Beef Tenderloin - BBACHETTE of Calf Liver and Bacon. 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I Now, 155 years later, a fourth- generation relative of Giertrud's has received special permission from the government to exhume her body in an effort to crack the mystery surrounding her death. He is Dr. Viggo Stracke, a colorful member of parliamenL who be lieves he may bo able to discover whether grave robbers bashed in her skuIL r Thousands of Danes gathered around the cemetery when the work of exhumation started last Friday tho anniversary of Gier trud's birth. They'll be back this week, to see it through. , Boys School j" Escapee Caught I In Stolen Auto State police apprehended -a 16-year-old runaway from the Mac Laren School far Boys, Woodburn, Sunday, as he was driving in tho Detroit Dam area in a stolen car. Police files indicate that the Suth, Darrell 1 Alfred Hamblet, d run away from a group while attending a basketball game at Hill's Military Academy in Port land. He told police that he stole a car near the school and ! then abandoned it in Porotland 'for a second car which he drove as far as Bend where it ran out of gas oline. ! Reports indicate he then' stole a car in Bend registered to Charles W. Sayler, Portland. He was ap prehended in this last auto. Re ports also reveal that an three cars stolen had ignition keys in them. i ; Oregon Turkey FROM THE DEL MILNE Taft Favors Senate Say on ointments WASHINGTON tfl Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) said Sunday night there Is to much confusion as to who in each state has the final say on the new administration. frBut Tail, the new Senate major ity leader said he and his fellow senators , feel very strongly that they are the ones to be consulted in most cases. The Ohioan express ed confidence that President-elect Eisenhower would go along with uus view. Interviewed on television (NBCs "Meet the Press"). T: ft said an attempt will be made to iron out the situation in i meeting he. Sens. Knowland (R-Calif) and MfflDdn (R-Colo) will have with Eisenhow er and his advisors. "Most senators." Taft blared. "feel very strongly under the con rtitution that the advice and con sent of the Senate applies to all appointnu ts that require confir mation, x x x "On national lntments." ha continued, "no senator can claim a right to have the man appoint ed he recommends. If a man is to be appointed from his state he may Insist on the veto power, so to speak, since the Senate has to confirm the appointment." - Taft told his questioners ho stm considered aS "incredible" Eisen hower's appointment of Marvin P. Durkin as secretary of labor. But he said he would not oppose Dur kin's confirmation, adding "I ex pect to get on with Mr. Durkin." Machine Tool Standby Asked WASHINGTON ( A commit: tee of industry leaders Sunday urg ed government outlays averaging half a billion dollars annually, for perhaps 10 years, to provide and maintain tne standby machine tools and Droduction eauintnent needed for all-out war. Harold S. Vance, president of Studebaker Corp., filed the com mittee's final report with the Of fice of Defense Mobilization (ODM). Vance headed ODM'i sev. on Production Equipment which has worked six months on the problem at President Truman's re quest. Vance told reporters the com mittee had not consults rnrrv. tatives of President-elect Eisen- nower but: "I think the new ad ministration will look at these rec ommendations sympathetically." A program embracing new leg islation, funds, and executive ac tion was urged on the government witn tne aim or avoidinr. if world war three comes, the tool and equipment bottleneck that delay- ea industrial moouizauon in past wars. Burglars Sure Of Hangovers MINNEAPOLIS UP) Police are seeking two burglars with bad hangovers or worse. Tho pair made off with a pint of whisky and a half-filled wine jug to help celebrate the theft of a 1300 ring in a local apartment job. The whisky was as advertised but the jub contained straight an a-freeze. the App Everybody Saves with Greyhound's 6-RIDE FAMILY BOOK! Businessmen are among themany groups wbo lAotiobiga. counts and savings received on a Greyhound 6-Ride Book. Tb book is good in either direction between any two pwnOi! j points. Any member of your family can use it. Tickets good tot tO days. Big savings with the Big 61 ,,. here's just omrrpiiMtMAPtoy- Salem to Oregon City ' . i"'--. " ." 8 One-Wcrr Tickets Cod (Including led. Tax) - e-ZUdo Fazafly Book Costs (Ho led. tax) S.C5 you v, .' -'; '' Basket Social Raiser 51,450 For Dimes Drive JOHN DAY. Ore. Ut The lit tie Eastern Oregon tonw of Izee raided $1,450.74 for the March of Dimes with - a basket social, Mrs. Joseph W. Officer, local campaign chairman, reported Sunday. She said 60 adults and -15 chil dren attended the Saturday night affair. . : ' Izee, located in southern' Grant County, has for several years led the entire United States in per capita contributions to' the March of Dimes, Mrs. Officer said. Ike 'Considers' Use of Chinese Units in Korea CLEVELAND W The Cleve land Plain Dealer said Sunday night that President - elect Eisen hower's administration is giving "serious consideration to send ing Chinese Nationalist forces against th island of Hainan. 1 The story was written by John P. Leacacos, the paper's foreign corespondent, who said he learn ed it from "sources of top rel'a bility." Leacacos, writing from Washington, is now n the United States on home leave. An attack by Chang Kai-Shek's Army on the Communist held is land which controls approaches to Indo China "would be one lever of the 'positive action hinted by Eisenhower circles to help end the Korean War through pressure on the -Chinese Communists." said the story which added that no use of-American troops is contemplat ed. "Taking of Hainan," said the sto ry, "would further assist in re moving strain on the embattled French in Indo China, on whose border two Chinese1 Communist army groups are an ever present menace. Hainan iron ore resources would also be a valuable asset to Japanese industry x x x." Credit Group to Hear Sprague Charles A. Sprague, publisher of The Oregon Statesman, will ad dress stockholders of the Willam ette Production Credit Association at their Tuesday luncheon meet ing in the Marion HoteL Sprague will report on his exr periences as an alternate delegate to the United Nations. The meet ing is expected to attract some 300 farm people from the mid valley area. Ernest E. Henry, president of the Production Credit Corporation of Spokane, Wash., will be an other speaker on the program. Nominated for the position of director to be filled this year are John Ramage, Woodburn fruit man, and Harry J. Asbahr, Cor vallis,1 a . producer of cannery crops. Holdover directors are Herbert A. Barnes, Silverton; E. W. McMindes, Astoria; G. H. Ful lenwider, Carlton, and E. A. Me Coraack, Eugene. New Shewing -Open 6:48 Richard Wldmark Marilrn Monroe Dent Bother To Knock' Errel Flynn, Roth Roman "MARA MARU save .. . .;$ud - .''"' :'. ' "v' -" r ' ' " ' U.S. Employes OfU.W.toGet Loyalty Check UNTED NATIONS. N." W United Nations and U.S. officials confer - here Monday to set the wheels in motion for putting S7S American employes in tho U.N. , jugh an TBI loyalty check. These are the top administrati- e. economic, social welfare and poli tical experts on the UJi. staff. More than 1.300 other Ameri can employes including stenog raphers, clerks, teletype operators, guards, radio technicians and tele phone operators will be put through a U.S. Cavil Service Com mission loyalty screen. If any show a hint of Commu nist or other subversive taint, they win get the full FBI treatment, too, and be fired if they an not cleared and fail in an- j to U.S. review boards. An executive order by President Truman last Friday arranged tor the first screening of its kind of U.S. employes working for the in ternational organization. The order reversed VS. prac tice since 1948, when the State Department ruled that it would have nothing to do with the ap proval of Americans on tho U.N. payroll. How long the screening of the 1.600 to 1.700 Americans now on the payroll will take mar be de cided when a representative of the Civil Service l Commission siet down with UJN. Secretary-General Trygve Lie and his aides Monday to set up the machinery. When it's over. Lie and the State Department fere sure that Ameri can Communists or other subver sives In the U.N. will have been weeded out of the organization. The U.N. insists that any probe will show the vast majority of American employes to be loyal. 470 PRISONERS FREED HONG KONG (A Chinese press reports from Canton said Sunday guerrillas blasted open the gates of a Chinese Red prison and freed 470 prisoners in Kwangtung Province. t "LANDING CRAFT REFLOATED ASTORIA (ft 1- The Navy re ported Sunday that , a tank landing craft which went aground during a storm in the Columbia River Friday, had been refloated. Open 6:45 PJVL Stewart Granger - In Technicolor -"PRISONER OF ZEND A Jan Sterling "SKY FTJLXi , OF MOON- Continuous Mary Castle Walks in The Dreams ef t IRON MEN 1 ' Gene Evans PARK ROW" Open :4S PJL Irene Donne Cary Grant "AWFUL TExmr naxnphrey Bogart -SAHARA" t) Matinee Daily front 1 pjn. ENDS TODAY I "Because You're Mine" A The Savage" "T T0II0QD0U! 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